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1 ee oe a te een ce ee nl C 0 Re: JOHN L, LE®IS, ET AL i &) ce INTERVIEN TITH = with it. & TL continue “I never suspected that PA officials were stealing money and we never had any special assessments like they did with UMW. The Progressive union was run by us miners and it vesu't lie the UMn which was run by only a few. I attended as many mi0%1..g. as I could of PMA. To my knowledge no UM men came out and botherec me tufore the mine closed won in 1937 nor did I see any literature of TMi. Be om aver approached me about going over to “Uhl but I heard there were sone going eround and this was before the mine closed. It was gozsip that UM had spies in Mine B but I didn't know who they were. a While living in Springfield i th ee I recall that he once said something about t w giving a big party and he said that he felt before long that Mine 1 would be Ua. ut in anrins af tr a. tsa we del aps aaa, wes 4 GO Tt recall much about the running & 1937. I don't recall of going to the meeting ths nig ht before the mine chsed down. I don't recall of hearing anything sbout some men dbeihg ex~ pelled and I just don't recall when I first heard about it. I remambor of being called out from the mine on the day it closed but I don't recall what we wore told about it. The way I recall it the strike was called because some spies were not fired and it was not over any wage question. I still have my tools out there in the mine. ah nas hha ont Ww *I recall that on the day the mine closed the cars were ioaded short because the drivers would came and take the cars awoy from us before we could load the cars and many of mine were not full and it never happened before except just thet one day. I can't recall the name of the driver. Wo one told me to load cars short. “When wo got called out from the mine on the day it closed nothing was said to me that a strike was called. Several weeks after the mine closed I signed a petition for PMA and I can't recall just where I signed it. Wo compulsion was used to make me sign it. I never signed anything for UMW and I never would. I would have signed any petition for Bid then and may have signed another one or two but I just can't recall for sure. "I heard something about (iW forming a new local but no one asked me to join it. I heard t that Pete Carter, was close with UM. but neither he nor any others bothered me. I think I attended several rogular PMA meet- ings during the summer of 1937 but nothing unusucl took place. I heard something about Faleetti and some of the other traitors wore working at the pSefferson Mine but I don't know anything more about it. I also once heard something about Klshoff taking over the Jefferson mine, I never got any notice that Mine B would reopen in Sept. 1957 but I heard about it and I = 452 - pe nine